About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherMcGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

ISBN-100070368171

ISBN-139780070368170

eBay Product ID (ePID)28504

Product Key Features

Edition70

Book TitleShip Modeling from Scratch: Tips and Techniques for Building Without Kits

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1993

TopicBoating, Radio

IllustratorYes

GenreSports & Recreation, Technology & Engineering

AuthorEdwin B. Leaf

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight12.6 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width7.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal623.8/201

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Selecting a Project Chapter 2 Getting the Most from Your Drawings Chapter 3 Materials Chapter 4 Tools Chapter 5 Half-Models Chapter 6 Hull Construction Chapter 7 Miscellaneous Matters Chapter 8 Applying the Finish Chapter 9 Masting and Rigging Chapter 10 Sailmaking and Flags Chapter 11 Making Fittings and Furnishings Chapter 12 Displaying the Model Chapter 13 A Plank-on-Bulkhead Model from Start to Finish Chapter 14 A Plank-on-Frame Model from Start to Finish Chapter 15 Postscript Appendices I. Sources for Plans II. Reference Material III. Tools and Materials Sources IV. Glossary V. Working Drawings: Brockley Combe and Lee Index

SynopsisBuilding a model from a kit is an excellent way to develop your modeling skills. But once you've mastered the basics, where do you go? If you're looking for a challenge, you move on to scratchbuilding. And that can be imposing: With a kit, you worked with someone else's plans, materials, and building instructions. Scratchbuilding makes you master of your own fate. You do the research, choose the subject, the scale, the material. The choices are limited only by your enthusiasm. Edwin B. Leaf scratchbuilt his first model--a Baltimore clipper--nearly fifty years ago, and he's been refining and building on his skills ever since. In Ship Modeling from Scratch he lays out the principles--from concept to construction to display--on which scratchbuilding is based. In clear, concise language complemented by detailed illustrations he tells how to interpret existing drawings or create your own, what materials to choose, what tools to buy, and what techniques to use to build everything from plank-on-frame, plank-on-bulkhead, or modern steel hulls to creating sharp and properly scaled details--paint to portholes. Building a model from scratch is a singular pursuit that requires patience, confidence, and ingenuity. With Ship Modeling from Scratch open on your workbench, you have your own private tutor guiding you through the troublespots., At 7.09 a.m. on 20 June 1994, David Bain called emergency services and reported finding his entire family of five dead. A year later he was convicted of having murdered them in cold blood, with determination and cunning. He was sentenced to life in prison. However, after 12 years of public controversy, inquiries and appeals, on 10 May 2007 the Privy Council concluded that a substantial miscarriage of justice had occurred and accordingly quashed the convictions and ordered a retrial. For the first time the background to this historic decision is laid bare. This compelling new book explores why the miscarriage happened, just how substantial it actually was and why it took 12 years to right this dreadful wrong. When the evidence heard by both juries is on the table and assimilated in logical fashion as Joe Karam has done in this detailed narrative, the so-called controversy posed by the judge in his summing up - 'Who did it? David Bain? Robin Bain?' - will be put to rest once and for all.